My recollections of Nikolai Evgrafovich Fedoseyev relate to the period of the early 1890s. I do not rely on their accuracy.

At that time I lived in the provinces—specifically in Kazan and in Samara. I heard of Fedoseyev during my time in Kazan, but I did not meet him personally. In the spring of 1889 I went to Samara Province, where I learned in late summer of 1889 about the arrest of Fedoseyev and other members of the Kazan circles—among them, incidentally, the one in which I participated. I think that I could easily have been arrested as well had I remained in Kazan that summer. Shortly after this, Marxism, as a tendency, began to spread, advancing to meet the social-democratic tendency, proclaimed considerably earlier in Western Europe by the group "Liberation of Labor."

N. E. Fedoseyev was one of the first to begin proclaiming his adherence to the Marxist tendency. I recall that on this basis his polemic with N. K. Mikhailovsky began, who replied to him in *Russian Wealth* regarding one of his illegal letters.

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